MODEL COLLAPSE

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Model Collapse is a video, theater, and installation work that uses Sophocles’ three Theban tragedies to navigate a contemporary internet landscape flooded with pornography, AI slop, disinformation, and algorithmically generated
psychopathologies.

The concept of “model collapse” comes from AI research and describes the phenomenon that occurs when an AI (or LLM, Large Language Model) is trained on its own material. Just as in genetics, this results in a degradation of the product. All video material and recorded speech is generated using AI tools.

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DIRECTION, MUSIC AND SOUND DESIGN

Karl Sjölund

ON STAGE

Anton Falck, Franciska Toubro, Bernhard Lindqvist Keisu

COSTUME AND SET DESIGN

Franciska Toubro

LIGHTING DESIGN

Benjamin Dahlberg

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR AND DRAMATURG

Zackarias Bergsteinsson

TEXT

Sophocles, Karl Sjölund

SOUND TECHNICIAN

Fabian Grytt

LIGHTING TECHNICIAN

Benjamin Dahlberg

PRODUCER

Masha Taavoniku